13V173000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
If the vehicle is continued to be driven, the engine may stall and/or the vehicle may not start. In addition, there may be a burning or melting odor, smoke, and possibly a fire in the trunk.
2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU ECO
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 154 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints154
Complaints citing a crash8
Complaints citing a fire1
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 47ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 22ENGINE
- 16STEERING
- 12ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- 10AIR BAGS
- 9SERVICE BRAKES
- 8POWER TRAIN
- 8UNKNOWN OR OTHER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU ECOs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.